RPS Asks: What You Are Up To?

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It’s a rainy bank holiday here in the UK, which means that the RPS writers are left to regenerate in their pit for another twenty-four hours. Worry not, though, because you guys are going to tell us what games you’ve been playing, and why. Still embedded in Skyrim? Playing Test Drive Unlimited for some reason? Found something no-one has ever played before? Speak your brains!

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Got up at 4:30 and played some Dungeon Defenders NH Shipwreck while watching Sanctuary. Stopped playing at 6:00am and considered going back to bed, but then remembered Game of Thrones was out so got that and watched it and then had a shower and made my lunch and I’m now whittling down the minutes until I have to goto work.

This game is pretty good! Can be ported to Nintendo to play? But Nintendo needs to pay attention to protection! I recently purchased Rhombus the Texture Snap-on the Crystal Carrying Case for with Nintendo 3DS! I am more like it! Because it not only convenient, prices are more reasonable! Quality assurance is more! It to do better than with other types of products! link to dok.do

I tried out the demo of Warlock (and subsequently preordered it), and as it reminded me of the Fall from Heaven mod for Civ 4, I decided to play it some again, and then a friend recommended the Rise from Erebus modmod.

Botanicula! It’s a great game [ed: experience], although I have no idea how far I’m in, and I feel a bit like I’m missing bits and pieces here and there because points of no return are not really signposted.

I got Botanicula after reading about it here, but it doesn’t really engage me. The artistry is very nice, but the gameplay is just undirected exploration and clicking on everything which can be clicked on. I must have got halfway through in one sitting a few weeks ago, but forgot where I installed it to and haven’t looked for it since then.

I sadly have to work but i’ve been back to Skyrim recently after a few months break, decided to start again as a Archer and enjoying it more than a 1handed/mage hybrid, Of course its now running 20+ mods so its almost a different game!

Hey, that sounds like my character, except I didn’t start over from scratch. What changed everything was getting my hands on a pair of Achery-boosting gauntlets, some sneak-boosting shoes and an enchanting skill high enough to buff the hell out of my ebony bow.

I could say I’m currently playing Dota 2 and since yesterday Warlock – something of something. But that’d be too mainstream. So in the hopes of other fellow gamer’s acknowledging this epic Bit-shooter (you may call it Binary Domain – The Proper Version), I’ll say I’m playing Star Wars: Republic Commando.

Oh, and it’s time to write up an article about the lack of imagination storywriters have when it comes down to naming a universe.

I got Arkham City for free with a new graphics card a while ago, and I decided to start playing it. According to Steam, it took about 30 minutes of in-game time (and according to the clock, about 2 hours of out-of-game time) to manage to log in to GFWL with an account that already existed.

When I logged in, GFWL tried to update itself but failed due to some meaningless error code. It sent me to the GFWL support site, from which I downloaded the manual GFWL installer. The manual GFWL installer did not in fact manually install GFWL (despite being named gfwlsetup.exe, and coming directly from Microsoft), it installed some bullshit Steam ripoff marketplace thing that didn’t help me play my game.

After some fruitless searching and restarting my computer, I gave up and installed all the pending Windows updates. For some reason, at this point GFWL was able to update itself and finally let me in to my game.

I got Arkham City in the Steal sale this weekend. I don’t think I’ve used a GFWL game since Arkham Asylum, so I was expecting similar shenanigans. Loaded the game up, up pops the GFWL screen and… it signed me in and worked first time. I nearly fell off my seat in surprise!

I do keep Windows up to date, so perhaps that helps (as updating did in your case). Then again, perhaps it’s keeping a special surprise for me when I go to play the game again, like telling me it’s lost my saved game or something.

I am back to Skyrim for the last few days: I finished the empire quests and moved a bit forward in the main story and in Thief guild quests. This game is huge. Level 49 and 110 hours + in and I haven’t done half of it I think.

I played some dota 2 too. I bought Batman AC, but won’t play it till i finish Skyrim. And D3.

Was hoping for my invite for dota2 by now, but no joy so I’ll start off with my win of the day bonus win in LoL then this afternoon is Skyrim new character ( battle mage this time, going conjuration for weaps and destro/heal/shield offhand depending on fight )

Over the weekend I’ve introduced a couple of mates to Crusader Kings II. We’re fairly small counts and dukes of Ireland and Wales, early in our multi campaign, yet I took advantage of their relative noobishness to declare myself King of Ireland over them. They were none too happy about that.

I played 90 hours and only got to the third or fourth main quest. I think I’d completed about 120 side quests. That however was my downfall, as I got well and truly bored. I soon realised that 99% of quests where exactly the same as each other and then it starts to recycle old caves\dungeons\lairs.

Casual WoW, daily heroics + an alt.
Tribes: Ascend, i play 100% Jug and 100% Capture’n’Hold, love it.
Another great game i play: searching the net for any info on D3 and counting the days.
And some D2 coop, to further hype myself up.

Other then that, shitloads of Starcraft 2 multiplayer and a little of E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy that my brother suggested. Couldn’t get into it sadly, some interesting ideas being thrown around but poorly presented, very hard to digest properly.

Finished becoming a “God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals” in Guild Wars last week. There’s no GW2 beta, which is what I really want. Got bored with Skyrim, spamming the same 4 skills all the time, give me something with tactical depth like a party based D&D game. Fallout New Vegas crashes within 5 minutes of starting, like clockwork. Stuck in Limbo, can’t get past the crate floating in water. Got bored with that indie horror game full of swaying staircases RPS was so keen on. Had my Portal 2 ration for the day (one level per day to make it last longer).

20 hours into Mass Effect 3. Shit hasn’t quite begun to get real yet, but I’m still enjoying it, especially for the combat. Thinking of starting Sword & Sworcery but I don’t want to get too distracted.

I’ve planned builds for my first five characters. And then some more builds. And then some other ones that I’ll probably do when I get bored with those.

And I’m desperately trying to finish all the games that will inevitably fall by the wayside when the incessant clicking starts. Botanicula, Legend of Grimrock, Mass Effect 3. Still trying to get a few Starcraft 2 games in every once in a while but I’ve gotten to the level where the erosion of my skill from not playing occurs faster than my improvement ramps it up, and I’ve given up on ever breaking into Grandmaster, so there’s not a lot of reason to play anymore.

Finally getting to actually play the Touhou series of bullet hell games after constantly hearing about it since 2003. The game design is solid, the music is sublime, and the writing and underlying fiction is much sharper than the usual chaff Japanese media industry keeps churning out.

Replaying the first Dragon Age! Its still great though! Reaching Lothering now (what an epic battle before)
And for RPS folks, where is the WiT for :

1. Ridge racer unbounded
2.Risen 2 dark water
3.Sniper Elite V2

Eurogamer gave no 2 and 3 6/10, still dont believe them though because the differences with half of the reader comments. If all of them flops, I will blame RPS for not told me earlier whether I have to buy it or not

Hooray, I recruit Sten (the caged qunari) in my second playthorugh after an hefty debate with those chantry leader (and a bit of rudeness, maybe I was to kind with her on my first playthrough). :cheers

I’ve been mixing it up. Played some mandatory Tribes: Ascend and did particularly well this weekend, I started playing Bastion which I picked up during the sale this week (brilliant game). Started playing Bulletstorm as well which I picked up during a different sale, which has turned out to be surprisingly good. And to top it off, I revisited the excellent zombie survival mod No More Room In Hell, which is one of the few games that really nails down a good mix between satisfying gunplay and a lingering atmosphere of desperation. Especially love the way ammunition is handled in that mod.

Mostly been playing PangYa (Korean golf MMO) and League of Legends (NA, I’m WarpRattler on there as well), or games like Kid Icarus: Uprising, Bayonetta, and Espgaluda II Black Label on not-PC. Fun times all around.

I’m about half way through a second crawl through of the excellent Legend of Grimrock. I’m finding plenty of things I missed on my first go through, and am enjoying the (slightly) harder challenge of hard mode. Unfortunately I’ve found myself quick-saved into a corner of the Fighter’s Challenge room with my only backup save an hour back. Hopefully I can find some way to survive the countless little green bogeys surrounding me.

I’ve just started my first real Skyrim playthrough. I’ve touched it a bit before to see what it was like, but I’ve held off for hardware, drivers, and mods. I’m happy that I did – the 30 mods I have installed have made the game significantly better than before. My 5970 running 6024×1200 is elaborately gorgeous. I just wish that crossfire didn’t have negative scaling – then I could probably press up to ugrids 11.

German Truck Simulator. Yes. Waiting for Diablo III, and while browsing through my games this weekend I suddenly noticed GTS and decided to try it out again. Been trucking ever since. Euro Truck Simulator 2 is looking to be quite awesome also. These sort of sims are truly my guilty pleasure.